NMM vs. STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, DHT, SFL, LPG, CMRE, and DAC
Should you be buying Navios Maritime Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navios Maritime Partners include Scorpio Tankers (STNG), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Costamare (CMRE), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) and Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scorpio Tankers has a consensus price target of $80.17, suggesting a potential downside of 1.27%. Given Scorpio Tankers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Scorpio Tankers is more favorable than Navios Maritime Partners.
Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scorpio Tankers pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers had 2 more articles in the media than Navios Maritime Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Scorpio Tankers and 2 mentions for Navios Maritime Partners. Scorpio Tankers' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Navios Maritime Partners' score of 0.80 indicating that Scorpio Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scorpio Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Navios Maritime Partners. Navios Maritime Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scorpio Tankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 42.12% compared to Navios Maritime Partners' net margin of 30.99%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 22.84% beat Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity.
Scorpio Tankers received 200 more outperform votes than Navios Maritime Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 60.92% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Navios Maritime Partners on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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